While we were enjoying our meal, i noticed everybody's plates had piles of food and that it didn't matter because it was "thanksgiving" therefore it was okay. Most of us didn't count what was in our food or what it contained and if we were eating too much or too little that can possibly make us sick. We don't pay attention to our bodies unless we have to so everybody just kep stuffing their face with a whole lot of turkey. It was towards the end when everybody was getting really full and decided to stop eating, if it was up to them they would probably continue to eat. I know for myself my plate had so much food and by the time i was done i had to unbutton my pants.
One of my mom's family friend that came over i noticed that he was kind of fat and he had two plates of rice. I thought to myself should he really be eating a second one with the weight that he has? Also i noticed that he wanted to get more food but seemed a little bit embarassed because of everyone else.There was a lot of talking at the table than what i expected to be because usually everybody is focusing on eating and enjoying the food. It didn't really matter how much you ate just as long as you had that secure feeling that you were full was good. You could have been packing a whole bunch of heart attacks coming but it didn't matter.
After everybody finshed eating, all the guys went and watched the football game debating, drinking beer while the woman were in the dining room drinking wine and talking about other stuff. Then everybody had cheescake and pumpkin pie with coffee while the kids had cucpakes to top off the whole thanksgiving feast. Everybody was not moving much everybody was pretty much relaxed since they ate so much food and just stood still.
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
HW#17-First Thoughts on the Illness & Dying Unit
I encountered illness twice with very close people in my family. One was my great grandmother, she had been sick for so many years since i was five years old. It was matter of time before she would pass away but at the same time nobody was ready for it to happen. The second was my grandfather which came to a shock to all of us. The day before he became very ill he was perfectly fine doing the usual things. Then the next day he was rushed to the hospital and each day he was getting worse. It was crazy how one day you can be perfectly fine and the next day terminally ill.
Growing up when somebody is ill or dying, you are suppose to go see them and comfort them even though you know that they are going to die which is the worst part. In my family lots of times we pray for the people who are sick and hopefully they get better(doesn't happen all the time. Following that in lots of hispanic background when people are dying or died, we have these praying session with the bible and the rosey. I never realized how in depth they go and the reason why, i honestly don't like it.
I always wondered where the social norms come from and how they came about with having funerals and seeing that constant ill person at the hospital. What if we never visited them at all or not the proper burial does that make it bad? In society being terminally ill or dying are suppose to have that their family near them and always have that comfort zone so possibly it will make them get better.
Growing up when somebody is ill or dying, you are suppose to go see them and comfort them even though you know that they are going to die which is the worst part. In my family lots of times we pray for the people who are sick and hopefully they get better(doesn't happen all the time. Following that in lots of hispanic background when people are dying or died, we have these praying session with the bible and the rosey. I never realized how in depth they go and the reason why, i honestly don't like it.
I always wondered where the social norms come from and how they came about with having funerals and seeing that constant ill person at the hospital. What if we never visited them at all or not the proper burial does that make it bad? In society being terminally ill or dying are suppose to have that their family near them and always have that comfort zone so possibly it will make them get better.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Hw#12-Final Food Project 2-Outline
Major claim: Food production should be reformed to avoid nightmarish industrial atrocities.
Supporting claim 1: Food production is currently putting harmful foods to the world and nobody is hearing about because our minds are being corrupted.
-Talk about the meat factories
-The amount of "stress" level towards the animals
-The government trying to hide everything
-Death of the 2 year-old boy
-Abuse of the farmers
Supporting claim 2: Food production can be changed by getting better insight on our food.
-Take about alternatives of not using the "normal" food ways
-Give example from the book Omnivore's Dilemma
-Being concious of what you eat
-Spread the world to other people
-Do the unthinkable
Supporting claim 1: Food production is currently putting harmful foods to the world and nobody is hearing about because our minds are being corrupted.
-Talk about the meat factories
-The amount of "stress" level towards the animals
-The government trying to hide everything
-Death of the 2 year-old boy
-Abuse of the farmers
Supporting claim 2: Food production can be changed by getting better insight on our food.
-Take about alternatives of not using the "normal" food ways
-Give example from the book Omnivore's Dilemma
-Being concious of what you eat
-Spread the world to other people
-Do the unthinkable
Hw#11-Final Food Project 1
For a final food project i decided to change my supermarket habits when i went shopping. When i went food shopping with my mom, i told her to buy fish instead of meat because of all the horrible things i saw in the movie and what i read in the book. Walking around the supermarket i paid more attention to the labels also and instead of getting ham i decided to get turkey. I decided to become a vegetartain for a day or two days to see how it feel and try something new. At first i was scared because i was so used to eating meat but i thought "hey it won't be that bad."
For the first day i had a tuna sandwich with water and a salad with onions and tomatoes with dressing that my mom made. While i was eating my dinner, i was happy that the fact it did not involve meat and that i could eat something without feeling gulilty for the animals that were slaughtered. Unfortunetly by the second day it all changed. My mom did not cook that night and she ended up buying McDonalds. Thinking about it was digusted but at the same time i wasn't going to starve myself. I decided to get two snack wraps and fries.
When i was on my second snack wrap i was looking at the lettuce and it looked kind of old. I spit it out and threw the rest of my food out. Then i wondered this is why i decided to stop eating it in the first place. It's hard changing your diet because lots of times you still have those cravings. I feel like i can accomplish changing my diet, just have to keep that motive in my head. Before i would never think about "i should stop eating meat" but after everything in this unit, it has definetly changed my mind.
I feel like it's important to be aware what is in your food. For example, my food looked old and i didn't even notice because i was so hungry. We never take the time out to look and even be notified. "Everything is not what it seems" just like our food we don't see all the bad things that have our food has been altered into. It's not real food the food is fake.
For the first day i had a tuna sandwich with water and a salad with onions and tomatoes with dressing that my mom made. While i was eating my dinner, i was happy that the fact it did not involve meat and that i could eat something without feeling gulilty for the animals that were slaughtered. Unfortunetly by the second day it all changed. My mom did not cook that night and she ended up buying McDonalds. Thinking about it was digusted but at the same time i wasn't going to starve myself. I decided to get two snack wraps and fries.
When i was on my second snack wrap i was looking at the lettuce and it looked kind of old. I spit it out and threw the rest of my food out. Then i wondered this is why i decided to stop eating it in the first place. It's hard changing your diet because lots of times you still have those cravings. I feel like i can accomplish changing my diet, just have to keep that motive in my head. Before i would never think about "i should stop eating meat" but after everything in this unit, it has definetly changed my mind.
I feel like it's important to be aware what is in your food. For example, my food looked old and i didn't even notice because i was so hungry. We never take the time out to look and even be notified. "Everything is not what it seems" just like our food we don't see all the bad things that have our food has been altered into. It's not real food the food is fake.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Hw#10-Food, Inc. Response
People should know where their food is coming from and especially what is in the food. There is so much cruelty towards the animals in the industrial farming and the some of the meat they aren't we are eating is not real"food" but simply small molecules being broken up in pieces. Farmers get treated so poorly and do not get enough credit for what they do while these big arigculture companies get all this money for making us unhealthy. In order for us to change for the better, we need to be smarter with our food choices, pay attention to labels and stand up for our food.
Compared to the book, i was able to better visualize the process of the animals and what really happens behind closed doors of the food industry especially the politics and the government side of things. I liked how i was able to see people's different point of views and how they felt on the food industry. In the book i was able to see Michael Pollan view and his journey through the food industry and the ideas he felt. Also the different techniques that he used along the way which i found very interesting.
After watching the movie it made me think twice about my food. Also reading the book and seeing the movie i have decide to maybe try and become a vegetarian. I think that the way they treat the animals are horrible and digusting and i wouldn't want somebody to put that "stress" on me. Today when i actually went food shopping i was paying close attention to the labels on the foods that my mom was getting and thought do they really mean what they are saying? Are they sure they included every single detail of what is IN this product? I just feel overall its open me up to other ideas and views that i've never thought before. I once said i would never stop eating meat maybe that day will change maybe not even just meat just eating better to maintain being healthy.
Compared to the book, i was able to better visualize the process of the animals and what really happens behind closed doors of the food industry especially the politics and the government side of things. I liked how i was able to see people's different point of views and how they felt on the food industry. In the book i was able to see Michael Pollan view and his journey through the food industry and the ideas he felt. Also the different techniques that he used along the way which i found very interesting.
After watching the movie it made me think twice about my food. Also reading the book and seeing the movie i have decide to maybe try and become a vegetarian. I think that the way they treat the animals are horrible and digusting and i wouldn't want somebody to put that "stress" on me. Today when i actually went food shopping i was paying close attention to the labels on the foods that my mom was getting and thought do they really mean what they are saying? Are they sure they included every single detail of what is IN this product? I just feel overall its open me up to other ideas and views that i've never thought before. I once said i would never stop eating meat maybe that day will change maybe not even just meat just eating better to maintain being healthy.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Hw#7D
Chapter#17-My Grass-Fed Meal:A Week's Pay
Precis
I decided to cook a nice meal for my close friends of mine. I made chicken, corn, and chocolate souffle which turned out to be very delicious. The chicken did taste better than supermarket chicken much healthier and so was the corn. The eggs that i used for the souffle was like magic just so it was stiff and how orange it was. Everybody enjoyed the food i made and so was i.
Gems
On page 200 what stood out was how it said "when chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens too" i think that is true if you liet chickens do what they want letting them live freely they will taste better when you eat them. Instead of keeping them caged up all dirty your chicken taste dirty and unhealthy (well we don't know that) but still. I like the fact that the narrator felt good about him making all this food and that it was so healthy even if it was lots of money and time worth spend. Moving a step forward to living a better life.
Thoughts/Questions
Reading about the chicken and dessert he made, made me actually kind of hungry because it sounded so good and the fact that he grew it himself was cool. I wonder if it would be possible to grow farms like the Polyface in New York State, i think that it is a good idea. The way he talked about the egg, i was like "wow" i didn't know when you crack an egg that its actually suppose to stay still. Usually when i crack my eggs it's yellow and slides all over the place. It's crazy how little things like that make a difference to the way your food taste.
Chapter#18-The Forest:Survivor Food
Precis
I decided to do another search for my food which was hunting, it reminded me of my times with my mother looking for clams and mushrooms. I learned which ones to eat. I hear about this guy named Angelo who was a hunter himself and loved to cook, he would be perfect to help me out. I would soon begin my hunting skills with Angelo and learn how to pick and shoot.
Gems
On page 208, it said "we cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun", i thought that was interesting because like the narrator said since i don't know how to use a gun or hunt or kill does that make him or anybody else less of a man? In a male's perpective i think that they should because that is what an all-american boy is supposed to have or so it says.
Thoughts/Questions
When i think of hunting, i think that it is kind of nasty because i guess what i see movies from people killing animals. I wonder if hunting is actually healthier than polyface because we don't actually watch the animals and have a farm, so does it make it better or worse? I never really thought about hunting myself, if it so much better people nowadays should learn how to do it, so that we can eat better.
Chapter#19-Eating Animals:The Meat Eater's Dilemma
Precis
Animals suffer just like humans but why should they be discriminated also. I decided to try out being a vegetarian it was not easy for me or anybody else. In the factory farms the animals have horrible conditions and nobody see what actually happens behind closed doors, just trying to make more money as possible. I agree that the way Joel Satlin raises his farm is particulary a good thing because the animals are to live happy and not suffer so when they do die they lived a happy life.
Gems
On page 227, the diagram stood out to me because it talked about basically how they were tricking the cows into killing them. Also it continued on the next page that when they stun the cows that not all of them die and they still killed them when they were alive which shows how much cruelty there is towards the animals and how much they don't care.
Thoughts/Questions
I agree with the narrator that Joel Satlin is the best solution because wouldn't you want the chicken to live a happy life with good conditons and which makes it happy food? No they just want to do what they want who cares how they feel and be cruel to them. Reading about how they have those stunner for the cows was kind of scary and how they are lifted off the ground but the cows cannot tell as well because they don't know what's going on. Where it said "McDonalds says it's ok if they have 5 percent error rate" i was like wow these people have no hearts at all.
Chapter#20-Hunting: A walk In The Woods
Précis
I thought hunting would be so exciting. I went hunting with Angelo on a friend's forest, the first time we went I didn't catch any pig but the second time I caught one it was a very big "prosciutto". At first when I caught the pig I was happy but then when I saw Angelo cutting it up I felt bad and a little remorse. After everything the pig was just food there wasn't nothing more to explain about it.
Gems
When the narrator was talking about him killing his first pig and being excited I thought that it was cool and interesting because i think that if I was in his postion I would feel the same.
Thoughts/Questions
I think that hunting is not that bad compared to how the animals get treated in the industrial factories because they live in worse conditons plus they get treated so cruel by workers. I was wondering if the pigs that they hunted where as santiarty as the pigs that Joel Saldin has raised?Do they hunt all the foods they eat or just meat?
Chapter#21- Gathering:The Fungi
Precis
My next adventure was to find edible mushrooms and Angelo was able to help me the ones i caught were called chanterelles. Mushrooms are atcually valled fungi and they help a lot with the earth and the life cycle. I took another trip hunting for morels, at first i didn't know what i was getting myself into but by the end i was so happy it felt so good like the first time i hunted the pig.
Gems
On page 254, where they were talking about four different fungi and how each of them do something essential to our life i thought that was kind of interesting. Because peronally when i think of fungi and mushroom, its a complete turn off for me and i never really knew they had an objectibve towards us.
Thoughts/Questions
I never really thought that hunting mushrooms was such a big deal as they make it seem in the book because most people don't eat it. Are the mushrooms actually much healthier than the industrial meat and other things that people eat? Honestly i would not eat mushrooms i don't think they do anything for me or have a purpose to making me healthier.
Chapter#22-The Perfect Meal
Precis
I decided to cook a prefect meal from all my hunting gathering for all the people who contributed and helped me with it. Thinking about the whole process i thought i would be unable to accomplish it but by the end of it all the meal was great and evrybody seemed to enjoyed which made me happy as well.
Gems
"It wasn't the cooking that made it perfect, but the connection we felt with the food, with the place we live and with each other" i thought that what he said is kind of powerful because lots of times when people eat food they want to feel that connection. How can you feel that though knowing the foods you are eating contain all these bad chemicals and unhealthy substances?
Thoughts/Questions
I thought that this last chapter was a very good way to sum up everything that happened in the book. Like the author said by tomorrow he would still go back to supermarket and get his reuglar food products because it would be so hard to maintain cooking like that. If the food industry didn't make it so hard and do all these bad things we wouldn't have to go out of our way to be doing the things we do to be healthy.
Precis
I decided to cook a nice meal for my close friends of mine. I made chicken, corn, and chocolate souffle which turned out to be very delicious. The chicken did taste better than supermarket chicken much healthier and so was the corn. The eggs that i used for the souffle was like magic just so it was stiff and how orange it was. Everybody enjoyed the food i made and so was i.
Gems
On page 200 what stood out was how it said "when chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens too" i think that is true if you liet chickens do what they want letting them live freely they will taste better when you eat them. Instead of keeping them caged up all dirty your chicken taste dirty and unhealthy (well we don't know that) but still. I like the fact that the narrator felt good about him making all this food and that it was so healthy even if it was lots of money and time worth spend. Moving a step forward to living a better life.
Thoughts/Questions
Reading about the chicken and dessert he made, made me actually kind of hungry because it sounded so good and the fact that he grew it himself was cool. I wonder if it would be possible to grow farms like the Polyface in New York State, i think that it is a good idea. The way he talked about the egg, i was like "wow" i didn't know when you crack an egg that its actually suppose to stay still. Usually when i crack my eggs it's yellow and slides all over the place. It's crazy how little things like that make a difference to the way your food taste.
Chapter#18-The Forest:Survivor Food
Precis
I decided to do another search for my food which was hunting, it reminded me of my times with my mother looking for clams and mushrooms. I learned which ones to eat. I hear about this guy named Angelo who was a hunter himself and loved to cook, he would be perfect to help me out. I would soon begin my hunting skills with Angelo and learn how to pick and shoot.
Gems
On page 208, it said "we cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun", i thought that was interesting because like the narrator said since i don't know how to use a gun or hunt or kill does that make him or anybody else less of a man? In a male's perpective i think that they should because that is what an all-american boy is supposed to have or so it says.
Thoughts/Questions
When i think of hunting, i think that it is kind of nasty because i guess what i see movies from people killing animals. I wonder if hunting is actually healthier than polyface because we don't actually watch the animals and have a farm, so does it make it better or worse? I never really thought about hunting myself, if it so much better people nowadays should learn how to do it, so that we can eat better.
Chapter#19-Eating Animals:The Meat Eater's Dilemma
Precis
Animals suffer just like humans but why should they be discriminated also. I decided to try out being a vegetarian it was not easy for me or anybody else. In the factory farms the animals have horrible conditions and nobody see what actually happens behind closed doors, just trying to make more money as possible. I agree that the way Joel Satlin raises his farm is particulary a good thing because the animals are to live happy and not suffer so when they do die they lived a happy life.
Gems
On page 227, the diagram stood out to me because it talked about basically how they were tricking the cows into killing them. Also it continued on the next page that when they stun the cows that not all of them die and they still killed them when they were alive which shows how much cruelty there is towards the animals and how much they don't care.
Thoughts/Questions
I agree with the narrator that Joel Satlin is the best solution because wouldn't you want the chicken to live a happy life with good conditons and which makes it happy food? No they just want to do what they want who cares how they feel and be cruel to them. Reading about how they have those stunner for the cows was kind of scary and how they are lifted off the ground but the cows cannot tell as well because they don't know what's going on. Where it said "McDonalds says it's ok if they have 5 percent error rate" i was like wow these people have no hearts at all.
Chapter#20-Hunting: A walk In The Woods
Précis
I thought hunting would be so exciting. I went hunting with Angelo on a friend's forest, the first time we went I didn't catch any pig but the second time I caught one it was a very big "prosciutto". At first when I caught the pig I was happy but then when I saw Angelo cutting it up I felt bad and a little remorse. After everything the pig was just food there wasn't nothing more to explain about it.
Gems
When the narrator was talking about him killing his first pig and being excited I thought that it was cool and interesting because i think that if I was in his postion I would feel the same.
Thoughts/Questions
I think that hunting is not that bad compared to how the animals get treated in the industrial factories because they live in worse conditons plus they get treated so cruel by workers. I was wondering if the pigs that they hunted where as santiarty as the pigs that Joel Saldin has raised?Do they hunt all the foods they eat or just meat?
Chapter#21- Gathering:The Fungi
Precis
My next adventure was to find edible mushrooms and Angelo was able to help me the ones i caught were called chanterelles. Mushrooms are atcually valled fungi and they help a lot with the earth and the life cycle. I took another trip hunting for morels, at first i didn't know what i was getting myself into but by the end i was so happy it felt so good like the first time i hunted the pig.
Gems
On page 254, where they were talking about four different fungi and how each of them do something essential to our life i thought that was kind of interesting. Because peronally when i think of fungi and mushroom, its a complete turn off for me and i never really knew they had an objectibve towards us.
Thoughts/Questions
I never really thought that hunting mushrooms was such a big deal as they make it seem in the book because most people don't eat it. Are the mushrooms actually much healthier than the industrial meat and other things that people eat? Honestly i would not eat mushrooms i don't think they do anything for me or have a purpose to making me healthier.
Chapter#22-The Perfect Meal
Precis
I decided to cook a prefect meal from all my hunting gathering for all the people who contributed and helped me with it. Thinking about the whole process i thought i would be unable to accomplish it but by the end of it all the meal was great and evrybody seemed to enjoyed which made me happy as well.
Gems
"It wasn't the cooking that made it perfect, but the connection we felt with the food, with the place we live and with each other" i thought that what he said is kind of powerful because lots of times when people eat food they want to feel that connection. How can you feel that though knowing the foods you are eating contain all these bad chemicals and unhealthy substances?
Thoughts/Questions
I thought that this last chapter was a very good way to sum up everything that happened in the book. Like the author said by tomorrow he would still go back to supermarket and get his reuglar food products because it would be so hard to maintain cooking like that. If the food industry didn't make it so hard and do all these bad things we wouldn't have to go out of our way to be doing the things we do to be healthy.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Hw#9-Freakonomics Response
While watching the film they used a lot of surveys and what statistics have been shown with people in everyday life. One example was when they talked about different black and white names and to see if that would their determine their future and who they are as person. They randomly asked people on the street and had two different opinions by a black man and an indian man who both had different views on it. The black man agreed that it the name doesn't define who they are as a person just by where they grew up at and how they were raised like the girl Tempris. On the other hand the indian guy opposed the idea. Another example was when a school is Chicago decided if paying kids $50 dollars for getting above D's would make them do better in their classes. In some cases it was true but in most of them it was not. The black kid was actually improving in his grades but the white kid would improve then go back and forth to failing showing his really did not care about his grades because he didn't like school. Paying students can't help do better they are just going to do waht they want to do living in the present not the future.
I think that Freakonomics does serve as inspiration good example to our attempt to explore the "hidden-in-plain-sight" weirdness of dominant social practices because it shows how people react to a little rewards such as the $50 dollars for good grades and how the creator paid the girl with m&ms so she would go to bathroom not only are teens smart enough to get what they want but so are little kids. If you wnt somebody to do something most of time they want to be given something special or rewarded for their accomplishment. Looking at the film it showed the insights of other people and what they think. How to get from A to B. Relating back to the food unit it would be interesting if people where given money to eat healthier or be rewarded to eat buy the neccesity they need in order to eat right would is really work or will it fail? Only time will tell.
I think that Freakonomics does serve as inspiration good example to our attempt to explore the "hidden-in-plain-sight" weirdness of dominant social practices because it shows how people react to a little rewards such as the $50 dollars for good grades and how the creator paid the girl with m&ms so she would go to bathroom not only are teens smart enough to get what they want but so are little kids. If you wnt somebody to do something most of time they want to be given something special or rewarded for their accomplishment. Looking at the film it showed the insights of other people and what they think. How to get from A to B. Relating back to the food unit it would be interesting if people where given money to eat healthier or be rewarded to eat buy the neccesity they need in order to eat right would is really work or will it fail? Only time will tell.
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